Although the Empress Dowager Xiao had an attitude of ignorance to everyone before, everyone was terrified of her, but compared with the anger that covered her face at the moment, it was nothing.
No one thought that a hand of jade Ruyi would be presented, and the good end would become angry.
When the following companions did not know what was going on, they were uneasy and did not dare to make a sound.
Eunuch Liu, who came to offer up with jade Ruyi, only felt a chill down his spine, and immediately knelt down without thinking about it, shouting, "Empress Dowager calm down, Empress Dowager calm down!"
The others are just before the steps.
The Empress Dowager Xiao kicked over, raised her hand and called to the left and right, shouting loudly: "Come here, take this rebel against the party! Send the Aijia to the Shen Pui Division Haosheng to be tortured!"
Liu Gonggong's complexion suddenly changed greatly.
Although he came to offer Yu Ruyi, he had no idea what kind of mystery was behind Yu Ruyi. Hearing the cold drink from the Queen Mother Xiao, he was so frightened that his three souls went out of his body, and his seven souls left his body, and one head hurriedly hit the ground. He kept crying: "I'm wronged, my slave is wronged! I was just ordered to offer jade Ruyi, but I don't know where I angered the Queen Mother, and I asked the Queen Mother to forgive me, this slave is wronged—"
Shen Zhiyi and Xiao Shu were sitting next to the Empress Dowager Xiao. They only vaguely glimpsed the handwriting on the back of Yu Ruyi, but they couldn't see what it was. When they suddenly encountered this change, they didn't dare to ask.
Empress Zheng was also taken aback.
She knew that although Empress Dowager Xiao's temper was not always good and she was mean, but if she reacted like this, something must have happened, and she called Eunuch Liu a "rebel to the party", so she guessed that it was no small matter.
Although Yu Ruyi was broken, there were a few pieces of jade that were larger.
Empress Zheng didn't interrupt for a while, she just walked down from the hall, picked up a piece of broken jade and looked at it, only when she saw the word "righteous boy" on it, her complexion changed greatly, she was no better than Empress Dowager Xiao.
The left and right have come up to live in Liu Gongji.
Empress Zheng glanced at the accompanying girls who were still standing tremblingly below, and only forcibly suppressed the shock in her heart, and said to them, "You guys should step back first."
Empress Dowager Xiao's face was ashen, but she didn't say much this time.
Everyone knew that this was a serious matter, and that it was definitely not something that their newly entered palace companions should know. As soon as they heard Empress Zheng's words, they hurriedly bowed and retire.
Xiao Shu also got up from her seat and said goodbye to the Queen Mother Xiao.
Shen Zhiyi was still sitting there in a daze.
When Xiao Shu left, he hurriedly pulled her and took her out of the Cining Palace.
When Jiang Xuening walked out of the gate of Cining Palace, he was blown by the cold wind of early winter, and realized that there was a cold sweat on his back!
This is the Ruyi case that was deeply involved in the previous life.
Yu Ruyi, which was selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and presented to the Empress Dowager Xiao, was actually engraved with diabolical words on the back, and it pointed directly at the emperor of the dynasty. As soon as the incident happened, it immediately caused a bloody storm. Many people serving in the palace were implicated in the nine clans, and some of the aristocratic families in the previous dynasty were also involved in it, and it was not a problem to seize the family and destroy the clan. Although the incident in Yongyi Hou's mansion has nothing to do with the case, the two incidents are so close that one has to be suspicious.
Thinking of Yongyi Hou's mansion, Yan Lin, and all the causes and consequences of the previous life, she suddenly became agitated, and she squeezed the palm of her sleeve tightly, barely calming down.
What should come always comes.
The more it is like this, the less you can't be in a mess, and the more you have to do what you should do in the chaos, how can you know that a drop in the bucket can't save the fire and save the crisis
Shen Zhiyi was still a little confused when Xiao Shu pulled her out, and asked in a daze, "What happened?"
Xiao Shu lowered her eyes and did not speak.
Shen Zhiyi glanced up and saw Jiang Xuening standing on the edge of the crowd, walked over and said with concern, "Ningning, are you alright, your face is so pale?"
Jiang Xuening remembered that Zheng Bao, who was kneeling at the entrance of Kunning Palace before, his eyes flickered slightly as he thought, and he thought, "There is no other way", so he forced a smile, and his expression changed. However, he looked a little scared and panicked, and said in a low voice, "Somewhat scared me."
Shen Zhiyi was actually frightened.
But she thought to herself that she was the eldest princess, the one who promised to protect Jiang Xuening, so she immediately put on the appearance of an ordinary small scene in the palace, took her hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, Isn't this princess still here?"
She held Jiang Xuening's slender fingers in her palm, and felt that her fingertips were actually cold.
Jiang Xuening just stared at her without speaking.
But those long eyelashes trembled lightly on a pair of beautiful eyes, like a deer who was shot down by a sharp arrow on the snowy field, and his fingers also clasped Shen Zhiyi's hand.
At such a moment, Shen Zhiyi could strongly feel that this friend who had a bright smile on her eyes with cherry blossom petals in front of her desperately needed her and depended on her so much.
Originally, after leaving the Cining Palace, they should all return to the palace.
The Mingfeng Palace where Shen Zhiyi lives and Yangzhizhaiben are in two different directions, so they should be separated at the entrance of the Cining Palace and go their separate ways.
But now she felt like she couldn't just leave.
Shen Zhiyi held her hand instead, curled the corners of her lips, and raised a bright smile as if she was nothing, pulled her in the direction of Yangzhizhai, and said only: "Look at your timidity. Yes, this princess will accompany you back."
After speaking, he said to the others, "Let's go."
Everyone followed in their footsteps.
Along the way, Shen Zhiyi was telling Jiang Xuening about some interesting anecdotes in the palace. When she was talking, she sometimes got stuck and had to call Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi to pick it up.
Xiao Shu was fine, she remained silent.
However, Chen Shuyi had already made enemies with Jiang Xuening, but when Princess Leyang spoke, she could not refuse, so she could only tell Jiang Xuening a joke with a stiff face.
Jiang Xuening only felt that if things weren't important today, she would have laughed out loud.
However, at this time, even he had to despise himself.
It's just a matter of coaxing a stinky man in the last life, anyway, he didn't start with Xiangxiang's soft daughter's house. Unexpectedly, I was living my whole life, and I became less and less bottom line, more and more inferior!
Shen Zhiyi was unaware of this.
A group of people walked in the direction of Yang Zhizhai.
When they came, they walked in the direction of Kunning Palace, but when they went back, firstly, everyone didn't pay attention, and secondly, Shen Zhiyi and Jiang Xuening were walking in front, so they naturally took the nearest route from Kunning. The road passing by the palace.
As early as when he could see the Kunning Palace wall from a distance, Jiang Xuening raised his heart, and secretly prayed that he would catch up.
As I turned the corner of the palace wall, my heart almost jumped to my throat—
The palace road ahead was silent.
The applause that had been heard before was gone.
At this moment, Jiang Xuening almost thought that he had missed the opportunity.
Fortunately, when she turned to the palace road the next moment, she saw the long figure kneeling at the gate of the palace.
Zheng Bao is still here!
Just before she could breathe a sigh of relief, she showed a slight smile. When she raised her eyes, she saw another figure standing in front of the palace gate not far away.
Mang robes and costumes, with jade belts around the waist.
With a tall body and a refined face, who is not the king of Linzi, Shen Jie? At this moment, he was looking at Zheng Bao, who could not afford to kneel for a long time. He raised his head and wanted to say something to the palace servants standing at the gate of the palace.
Jiang Xuening's eyelids twitched, but he didn't dare to let Shen Jie speak like this to save Zheng Bao, in a hurry, he deliberately stumbled on his left foot and stepped on the corner of his skirt with his right foot, and his body suddenly lost his balance while walking, "Yeah" low With a scream, he fell to his knees.
She didn't respond much.
Shen Zhiyi, who was walking beside her and still telling her jokes, panicked and shouted, "Ningning!"
Shen Jie, who was about to ask the little eunuch why he was being punished at the palace gate in front, heard the sound and immediately turned his head to look. He saw the companion over there at a glance, and quickly recognized Jiang Xuening who had fallen.
Disrupted by this, normal people will forget what they were going to do.
Shen Jie was the same.
He hurriedly walked towards them, but because there were other companions present, it was difficult to get too close, so he only said warmly: "Although the long road in this palace is old, it was only repaired a few years ago. so careless?"
The companions had also met Shen Jie by chance when they entered the palace last time. Knowing his identity, they all bowed and saluted when they saw him approaching: "I have seen His Royal Highness King Linzi."
When Jiang Xuening saw him coming, he was more than half settled.
Thinking that they were close relatives and estranged couples in the last life, her death could be considered as Shen Jie's burial, so what happened to grab him a chance in this life? It should be regarded as the money Shen Jie gave him for his hard work and loss of life.
Anyway, he is the king of Linzi, and there is no shortage of Zheng Bao to be the emperor in the future.
But she is very short.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xuening somewhat relieved the guilt of stealing the opportunity, and quickly said: "I went back to your Highness to visit the Empress Dowager. already."
Xiao Shu looked at her quietly.
Shen Zhiyi helped her up herself, and when she heard what she said, she also pouted to Shen Jie, "Brother Wang, you were not here just now, the queen mother is scary."
Although Shen Jie's temperament is modest and gentle, he was born in the palace, and he was familiar with his ears and eyes. Hearing what they said, he knew that something had happened in the Cining Palace, so he frowned slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"
Shen Zhiyi said: "It's just as good as it is, I don't know how to say it..."
She wanted to straighten up her speech, but she didn't know where to start, and she was in a mess.
Shen Jie was at a loss when he heard this.
In the end, Xiao Shu said succinctly: "Eunuch Liu of the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a jade Ruyi from Qinghai as a tribute to the Holy High, but there seemed to be some wicked words engraved on the back of Ruyi, which angered my aunt, and now the Queen is also in Cining. The palace is dealing with this matter."
Shen Jie couldn't help but looked up at her.
When Shen Zhiyi heard Xiao Shu's words so succinctly, she nodded quickly and said, "Yes, that's it. Brother Wang, let's take a look."
Shen Jie was also going to greet Empress Dowager Xiao, but after pondering for a while, he said, "I'll go take a look."
When he said this, the little eunuch had long forgotten.
He walked up to the direction of Cining Palace, but when he was passing by the companions, he caught a glimpse of Jiang Xuening, who had just fallen and stood up, bowing his head and stroking his knees, so he couldn't help laughing and said jokingly: "You can fall even when you walk on the flat ground. Jiang Er girl has to watch the road well, or else she will lose her appearance before I owe this king's apology drink, but I don't know who will be distressed when I look back!"
Jiang Xuening was stunned for a moment, but she didn't realize what the "apology wine" was. It wasn't until Shen Jie turned around and left that she remembered that she had misunderstood when she was just reborn. After slapping Shen Jie, she said that she would invite a drink another day. apologize.
The words are of course polite.
But he didn't expect Shen Jie to remember.
When the companions saw that Shen Jie came over and only paid attention to Jiang Xuening, their eyes were a little strange.
When I heard the word "apology wine", I couldn't stop looking at her.
Xiao Shu was standing beside Shen Zhiyi, her calm face was a little dazed, and when she looked back at Jiang Xuening, her eyes darkened a little.
Jiang Xuening glanced at the reaction of everyone, and secretly complained in his heart.
She deliberately wanted to explain that she and Shen Jie had nothing to do with each other.
But the King of Linzi had already gone away after speaking. Where was the time for her to explain? Besides, she was supposed to say that she had slapped Shen Jie before, and this apology wine was a slap in the face
Don't you want to die if you spread it out
Shen Zhiyi asked curiously, "Apologize wine?"
Jiang Xuening smiled bitterly: "In the past, when I was ignorant and messed around in the market, I had some misunderstandings with His Royal Highness King Linzi."
Shen Zhiyi also wanted to ask what the misunderstanding was.
But at this time, Jiang Xuening's eyes were already turned forward, and it fell on the eunuch Zheng Bao who was kneeling at the gate of the palace.
Shen Zhiyi followed her gaze naturally, she didn't care when she saw that it was just a little eunuch kneeling in front of the palace gate, but she wondered why she reacted like this, so she said, "It's normal for someone in the palace to be punished, it must be What wrong do you make, just kneel."
Jiang Xuening said in a low voice, "I saw him kneeling here when I came..."
Her voice was weak, and she deliberately made a sad and worried gesture. Even though she had only three parts of fake sympathy and fear, she also showed a real and very empathetic fear.
After all, the scene in the Cining Palace just happened not long ago.
When Empress Dowager Xiao saw them, she made them kneel without screaming, and gave them a big dismount, which would indeed frighten the less courageous.
Shen Zhiyi still hasn't forgotten.
When she saw Jiang Xuening's expression and the little eunuch kneeling beside her, she naturally guessed that she saw the little eunuch being punished and remembered the experience in the Cining Palace just now, aroused fear of this deep palace, and felt that she Like this little eunuch, in deep danger of being blamed at every turn...
In her heart, she couldn't help complaining that the queen mother was too strict, and she couldn't help complaining that the emperor's sister-in-law didn't punish people early and late, but she chose this time, what if she scared Ning Ning
Immediately, he raised his eyebrows, and the majesty of the beautiful girl of the sky returned to her body.
Shen Zhiyi directly said to the female official standing in front of Kunning Palace, "What did this eunuch do wrong?"
The female official hurriedly bowed and saluted, and was about to answer: "His name is Zheng Bao, and he was uneasy when serving today and didn't know—"
"I don't want to hear it!"
Although Shen Zhiyi asked the question, she was the one who interrupted her. With an impatient gesture, she immediately gave the order with a wave of her hand.
"Everyone has already been punished and knelt for so long. It's almost done. Please forgive him. When the Queen's Wife turned around and asked, she said it was the meaning of this princess."
The eldest princess of Leyang was favored in the palace. The sage invited her husband from the Hanlin Academy to go to school for her. She also screened the companions. Dare to have a half-point rebuttal
Immediately said: "Yes."
Then he instructed the left and right: "Quick, help people up, don't obstruct His Highness's eyes here and scare people."
The little eunuchs on both sides immediately stepped forward to help him up.
Zheng Bao had been kneeling on this palace road for some time, his knees were already sore and numb, and when he got up, he almost knelt down again. Finger marks were intertwined on his originally beautiful face, only those eyes were lacquered. light up.
He raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xuening.
Unexpectedly, however, what appeared in his eyes was not the coy and timid face like the voice he had just heard, but a pair of calm eyes hidden under the softness, looking at him quietly at the moment.
It is clear that the appearance of the flower is like a beautiful flower, but it makes him feel that it is full of thorns.
Jiang Xuening's eyelashes trembled, she lowered her gaze slightly, and when she raised it again, she smiled at Shen Zhiyi: "Your Highness is so kind."
Shen Zhiyi's face turned red again.
She coughed, pretending to be calm and composed, and hummed, "That's not it!"